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9/11This is improbable too : synchronized cows, speedy brain extractors, and more WTF research
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317 pages : 20 cm
Marc Abrahams collects the odd, the imaginative and the brilliantly improbable. Here he turns to research on the ins and outs of the very improbable evolutionary innovation that is the human body (brain included): What's the best way to get a monkey to floss regularly? How much dandruff do Pakistani soldiers have? If you add an extra henchman to your bank-robbing gang, how much more money will you 'earn'? How many dimples will be found on the cheeks of 28,282 Greek children? Who is the Einstein of pork carcasses?
Includes bibliographical references
Between the second and fourth digits -- The brain's behind -- High, brainy mindedness -- Ears, tongues, noses, and all that -- Bones, foreskins, armpits, slime -- Thinking, on your feet and fingers -- Navel gazing, curious consuming -- Some things stick out -- What comes after the colon? -- Stuff in the air (and elsewhere) -- Soft is hard
Marc Abrahams collects the odd, the imaginative and the brilliantly improbable. Here he turns to research on the ins and outs of the very improbable evolutionary innovation that is the human body (brain included): What's the best way to get a monkey to floss regularly? How much dandruff do Pakistani soldiers have? If you add an extra henchman to your bank-robbing gang, how much more money will you 'earn'? How many dimples will be found on the cheeks of 28,282 Greek children? Who is the Einstein of pork carcasses?
Includes bibliographical references
Between the second and fourth digits -- The brain's behind -- High, brainy mindedness -- Ears, tongues, noses, and all that -- Bones, foreskins, armpits, slime -- Thinking, on your feet and fingers -- Navel gazing, curious consuming -- Some things stick out -- What comes after the colon? -- Stuff in the air (and elsewhere) -- Soft is hard
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